I think this is paradoxically cause for hope too. We became better than this, and nothing about a regression, even a catastrophic one, closes the door to becoming better again.
For most of its history, America hasn’t been a democracy, by any meaningful definition of the term!
This isn’t some It Can’t Happen Here shit, in a way, it’s already happened. It just may not have directly affected you.
I know there’s a very real threat of not having free and fair elections after this. But people organizing in the Jim Crow South already didn’t have those and they still did the work.
